At the moment I am making this very website and doing mental practice for Toke Odin's " Maskine" ( machine), while waiting for the instruments being constructed by the composer. I commissioned this piece in 2010( ! ), and it will be premiered in spring 2014.

The commission happened because of an informal talk we had about the ideas of transferring a mechanical system into sounds. I expressed my old obsession about manifesting a picture of different sizes of gears moving in different speed into a percussion work, but I couldn't find ways to notate it. Funnily enough, Toke also had the same interest and was ready to manifest the idea. Who had the idea first? It's not important.

A brief note from the composer:

The piece is for 14 pieces of metal with varying pitch. It is a piece about how to transform a mechanical system into a musical system. Here is a drawing of the inner workings ("the form") of the piece:

For the piece, I will construct an instrument out of old pieces of metal, which in former times have been used as part of the same kind of machinery as the piece itself is depicting in music." ---Toke Odin

Please go to Toke Odin's website for detailed information about " Maskine", and to check out this multi-faceted composer, who is also a photographer and much more.